PLACEmaking 2008-2013: RUDI's flagship annual publication

Calling thought leaders with the will to drive creativity and innovation across the placemaking disciplines…

PLACEmaking is an editorially-led, analytical publication that provides a candid overview of the key issues facing placemakers.

Detailed case studies offer insight into the success of innovative placemaking schemes currently being designed and delivered internationally, supported by stakeholder commentary.

PLACEmaking was created to develop the work of RUDI (Resource for Urban Development International), an organisation and membership community created in 1989 at the Joint Centre for Urban Design, Oxford Brookes University, UK, a leading centre of interdisciplinary thinking about place and movement. It highlights the innovative strategies and initiatives that are working to create resilient communities.

PLACEmaking 2013: An international focus on place, movement and the urban realm

The fifth edition of PLACEmaking will explore ways of:

•delivering successful people-centered spaces in the context of booming urban centres
•changing mobility patterns
•mobilising communities
•the development of new tools and processes that support better decision-making.

PLACEmaking features case studies, analysis, comment and views from across the placemaking community. Content will be focused on creating economically, environmentally and socially viable places that people enjoy spending time in.

Edition three of this acclaimed publication was published in November 2010.